DECAYCAST Reviews RXM Reality “Blood Blood Blood Blood” (Hausu Mountain, 2020)

Midwest mind bender juggernauts Hausu Mountain are at it again with a seemingly endless stream of twisted cuts and RXM Reality “Blood Blood Blood Blood” is no exception.  Splattering Synth, pummeling percussion fly around the room, ricochet roadblocks inside the mind rattle around like drum sets crashing down an endless stairway. For his third Hausu cassette, RXM Reality explodes into dense layers of break core madness,  using sputtering percussion,  accelerated synth tone poem destruction,   alien death accelerated.  Time compresses and expands in a never-ending array of spastic shuttering, clipping, squeezed rhizomes of inexplicable sound. BBBB is an anxious,  rattling machine shedding  it’s parts like cyborg gone awry. Bass drum explosion sets a sudden pressure change inside the skulls abandon, hollow cave, and you feel things begin to crack. Voices undulate to  short sputtered screams truncated by  delayed pitch shifting schizophrenic madness. The sound of  “Blood Blood Blood Blood” is textured and layered in a way that resonates with many of the other  Haus Mo releases, fitting into the labels sonic archeology quite nicely.  At times, referencing a  distorted, acid fueled take on footwork, other times, on “Queen Tiki” – twisted  and turning, mangled interpretations of  trap, and yet again, at other times (seconds later)  frantic  truncated noise walls cascade upon layers of warm tone poem backings referencing early Wobbly,  Autechre on acid in reverse, is that  something that can be referenced, we don’t know, but we do know that we love this tape.  Throughout the entirety of BBBB the  sound continued as the perfect mix of insane, chaotic, pleasing, and indescribable;  a maximalist sonic gem, Haus Mo can seemingly do no wrong. Pre order the album here: